Israeli ex-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

JERUSALEM, March 29 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel Saturday for another attempt to advance the peace process.

TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Lt. Gen. Dan Shomron, the Israeli paratroop commander who led a 1976 raid to free 103 hostages at Uganda's Entebbe Airport, has died in Israel at age 70.

UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008.

UPI Almanac for Friday, Dec. 21, 2007.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep, Saul Bellow once said. The illusion, yet again, is a Middle Eastern peace conference in November or December that would produce the final outlines and contents of an independent state of Palestine. Seldom has such a vision appeared more chimera than reality, and yet seldom pursued more vigorously, this time by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has logged eight trips to the region in ten months, in the elusive pursuit of a legacy other than Iraq.

UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Will Ehud Barak be Israel’s Junichiro Koizumi? He wants to be.

DEIR ZOIR, Syria, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Syrian officials gave journalists a tour of a city said to have been the target of a recent Israeli air raid, apparently to demonstrate there was no attack.

JERUSALEM, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu came under criticism for publicly confirming Israel attacked Syria by air two weeks ago.

GOLAN HEIGHTS, Israel, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A tour bus perched atop the Golan Heights waits for tourists taking pictures of UN Peace-Keeping forces below. A young man hugs and kisses his girlfriend as someone takes their photo. All seem oblivious to the Israeli troops massed one kilometer to the South facing a Syrian army just over the hill and out of site to the North. Welcome to the Golan Heights where all is not as it seems.